fyi/i&t jb&w*t jj&i QteXfOtt fyoothall . Football—the thrill, pageantry, color of it, the competition, the crowds, the rising surge of school {spirit as the lemon and green eleven fight back and forth across the gridiron ... is it possible that all this will make its comeback next fall after years of ■war-enforced hibernation on the University of Ore gon campus? We hope so. We think it can be done if Oregon men will turn out in full force to show the athletic board, on whom the decision for or against football depends, that Oregon has the material and the spirit to field a team. That is why your newspaper is con ducting a survey of available manpower this week. That is why the Emerald is urging all men on the campus who have some football experience and are ■willing to turn out next fall to fill out the question naire and turn it in to the Emerald. These questionnaires, after tabulation, will be given to Anse Cornell, University athletic manager, to be used at his discretion. At least, the response received will give some indication of how interested Oregon men are in fielding a team and playing in the Northwest, conference. Otherwise we will he the only school, except Stanford, which is still maintain ing its wartime status. But, as Dr. Earl M. Pallett, University executive secretary and chairman of the athletic board, point ed out, we can not allow .our emotions to run away with us. Naturally, we all want football. We'll all turn out to watch the games. We'll support the team as enthusiastically as we supported the basket ball squad. There’s more to football than just school spirit on the part of the student body and the desire of the students to see the University in the running with our neighboring schools. There is the matter of mone}' to pay for equipment, which alone may amount to $5000. for coaches, equipment, men, med ical aides, labor fund, etc. The compulsory sale of athletic cards to all students registering for fall term, as authorized by the state legislature but not yet adopted by the University, would help solve the financial problem. The sale of these cards at, say, $3 each, would partially eliminate the risk of losing money on the season and would solve the overhead bugaboo. Then the athletic board could save whatever they now have banked for the post war season when Oregon will be able to skim the cream of returning athletes and put out a champion ship team. "\\ e must realize that most of the other schools in the conference have navy trainees on the campus at their disposal. The University will have to rely on 17-year-olds, 4-F’s, and returned veterans, many of whom are physically unable to play rugged bajfc~ According to Pallett, the board dropped football because there were not enough men to continue; it has been and is the intention of the board to restore football and a complete athletic program as soon as the manpower supply warrants such action. In a brief pre-survey Tuesday it was found that out of the 39 men in Sherry Ross hall, 10 would turn out for football; Omega could contribute a't least two. In a five-minute canvass of the Side, seven men stated their intentions to play football. All the men cpiestioned were eager to see the game back on the campus. Cornell mentioned several men whom he thought were football material. The high schools, despite the threat of draft jj^r 18-year-olds, will provide more men. Hank Kuchera, Eugene high coach, said Tuesday that he had four men on his varsity team who would make college ball players. He was fairly certain that two- of them would attend the University next fall and turn out for scrimmage. The other two, he said, would play for Oregon with a little inducement. University high's Coach Davis said he had two men who were potential Webfoot grid stars. We believe it could be done. It's up to the men to do it. Oregon Emerald ANNE craven Editor ANNAMAE WINSHIF Business Manager MARGUERITE WITTWER Managing Editor PATSY MALONEY Advertising Manager WINIFRED ROMTVEDT News Editor LOUISE MONT AG, PEGGY OVERI AND Associate Editors Jane Richardson. Phyllis Perkins, Viriginia Scholl, Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Norris Yates. City Desk Editors Bjorg Hansen. Executive Secretary Mary Margaret Ellsworth, Anita Young, Co-Women’s Page Editors Jeanne Simmonds. Assistant Managing Editor Darrell Boone. Photographer Shirley Peters, Chief Night Editor Betty Bennett, Music Editor Gloria Campbell, Mary K. Minor Maryan Howard. Assistant News Editor Librarians Jack Craig. World News Editor EDITORIAL BOARD Norris Yates, Edith Newton Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays and Anal examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Oregon. *llie Suntuf, Side . . . This is keep-your-fingers-erossed week at Oregon. If the month of Ma\ lives tip to her poetic reputation, there’s nothing to worry about. Hut May has anything hut a poetic reputation in this state. W ith the proper cooperation from the rain gods, Junior .Weekend will be the highlight of the social year. The Igloo will bold its own for the Campus Sing and the Junior Prom, hut the trees on old campus, stately as they may seem, can only be counted on for shade and atmosphere for the picnic. The parade is completely on it.sym n. If very year the worry is the same. No ingenious committee chairman has thought of a way to avoid it. I'or lack of any scientific ideas, we can onlv suggest that am medicine-show or Indian-dancc devices be fullv utilized. Ganoel. . . Tlie old millrace is the center of I'niversity life during; spring' term. Picnics, sunbathing, and canoeing lure students to its sb ores. With all its appeal, though, the in ill race is treacherous, lb 'pitc it.- calm appearance, it- has a swift and dangerous current Too, it .is polluted and has been condemned for swim mi ng. Not too long ago Oregon mourned the loss of several stu dents who drowned in the race. It has just been long enough for most of us to forget. It'.- a good idea to find out how to handle a canoe before going on that cruise by moonlight. The bridges are verv pic turesque, but they also provide a neat obstacle course for the beginner. A little-caution won’t spoil our fun. ‘'It'.- fun to be safe," said !>r. Irma Gene Kevins, director of accident prevention for the American Red Cross. Washing ton. ICC., in an assembly at the Pittsburg (Kas.) State Teach ers college. “Know the rules of safety as well as the rules of the game and you will have more fun playing.” She was four teen years head of the department of physical education for .■women at KSTC.—-(ACP) ^lllllllllllllllll!l(lllllllllll!llllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll^ [ Clips and Comments 1 f I By BETTY BUSHMAN and JANE ELLSWORTH Proof Enough A frosh coed at the University of Texas wrote the registrar ask ing permission to live in Scotch and Rye domitory. The registrar’s office promptly answered that it was “plain Scittish Rite, without bar or soda.” Si Si Si Beer With a Head Here is a bit that the Daily Cali fornian considers to be the great est journalistic faux pas of the week which was in last Wednes day's San Francisco Chronicle. Beneath a one-column cut of Fa ther O'Sullivan, a headline read: “OLD BEER MUGS NEEDED AS ARMY MORALE BUILDERS.” Si Si Si Shoe, Shoe, Baby In an effort to still the cries for action and something different, the student activities board at the University of Idaho is sponsoring a “Stocking Brigade” all campus dance Friday. The board decided that “there is nothing quite so con genial as people relaxing with their shoes off,” so all shoes are to be checked at the door. We Would A Minnesota Daily columnist had this gripe to register in last Wed nesday's paper: “Of late we have noticed a stronger tendency for gossip col umns and the like to query their readers with nonsensical quota tions a la the following: ‘What prominent man was seen with who what week where?' and Who got drunk wherefore and why at whose what-cha-ma-call-it two or three or four weeks or days ago,’ in other words, the paragraphs sim ply are saying, ‘Wouldn't you lik<$ to know what we know?’” MCDONALD "I'LL BE SEEING YOU" JOSEPH COTTON GINGER ROGERS Letters to the Editor " To the Editor: And to all those who are to suf fer as I shall suffer. For one day now I have been taking the long way home and also the wrong way to classes so that I shall not disturb the little green blades of grass on Oregon’s cam pus. Besides being a humanitarian, I also have a great deal of respect for the Order of the O. For four years I have obeyed cheerfully those things which they have for bade. I feel that by this time I have earned their approval and admiration. However, today on my way to class—one hour late because I took the long way mentioned above—I chanced to place one foot upon the green blades which grow in the parking in front of the Co op. And I was accosted. Believe me, Madame Editor, I had no com punction about stepping on that blade because I felt that I was fully within my rights. As I recall, no announcement has been made that such a step was illegal. The rules—as I have been led to be lieve—apply only to the old cam pus. I am not writing this letter be cause I have any fear about being dunked. (I learned how to do the elementary back stroke in swim ming when I was a freshman). But I would like to say that, in the first place, it is illegal, and in the second'place, the weight of a mor tar board and gown will likely drag me to the bottom. Also—it will probably be a warm day, and I am sure the Order of the O would not think of embarrassing my fa ther and mother by removing that cap and gown. I demand a writ of habeas cor pus. With sincerest motives to the Order of the O, One who is about to be dunked. “Honey, won’t you-all marry me?” “Oh, this is so southern.” "SUDAN" MARIA MONTEZ JON HALL TURHAN BEY Dear Sir: * There she stood, her green and red wheels obscured by muddy water. Her motor coughed, sobbed in agony, and subsided. “Green Death,” we cried, “here!”' This pathetic story dates back to Monday, April 30, when our car, shepherded by unknown hands, found her way into the famed Eu gene graveyard. We ask you, is that any way to treat the 17-year-old car that ha^p carried 12 girls in and about Eu gene? Is there no justice? Must we endure this cruel prank in si lence? No!! We thank the Sherry Ross men (or is it boys?) for leaving us our most necessary gas which un doubtedly will not be long for this world since the aforementioned pranksters sawed off the gas cap and removed the inner coil. Need less to say, this is most embarrass ing when we round a corner. Scrap ing gas off the streets is no small feat! We would thank fhe gentlemen if they would return our gas coil, and promise that no evil will befall them. Never fear, children, we won’t hurt you. ^ The Bereaved Owners. » • Lost LOST: SILVER and black Parker 51 pen last Thursday. Return to Marilyn Stratton. Phone 2305. Liberal reward. r • "PRINCESS O'ROURKE" Olivia DeHavilland Robert Cummings "WATERLOO BRIDGE" Vivian Leigh Robert Taylor Walt Disney's "THREE CABALLEROS"